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Jeanette Winterson

English writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1959 · age 67

Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology.

Jeanette Winterson is read about 341 times a day, in 36 languages.

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2016BBC 100 WomenAwardFellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1993Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian FictionAward1991British Academy Television Award for Best Drama SeriesAward1990E. M. Forster AwardAward1959Born27 August 1959

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BBC 100 Women2016
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2016
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction1993
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series1991
E. M. Forster Award1990
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1959 · age 67

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